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Bangkok

Short Sightseeing Trip

Story by Dona June 2nd, 2015

APRIL 2015

After I resigned from work, I had five days to spend before I had to start working for the new company. So then I decided to go to Bangkok (the decision was made a month before, haha). I’ve heard so many good stories about traveling to Bangkok, the three main activities I planned to do were sightseeing, food eating (duh), and shopping — was told that things are super cheap, but it’s another story as I wasn’t satisfied with the shopping, the best part of it was Chatuchak Market.

Anyway, I brought my camera with me the whole trip but I only managed to snap decent pictures of the sightseeing part, after that, I couldn’t bother to take any photos with the Fuji — fully relying on my smartphone. #thankyoutechnology

So here are the ‘decent’ photos I took:

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THE GRAND PALACE

First stop. It was scorching hot in Bangkok and I came fully prepared to go to this place (read: no short pants, no sandals — think modest) so I didn’t have to queue to rent some cover-ups. The complex is huge and I was really amazed by the details of the architectures. I want to take pictures of everything from different angles and because it is the main/most famous landmark in the city, it was really crowded. Admission fee is 500 Baht.

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Selfie generation
Tourists from China
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Look at all these glorious gold!

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Magnificent.

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The guards.
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the people of bangkok

After we got out of the Grand Palace, we had a little walk around the area to have lunch — I had Pad Thai and a glass of cold Thai tea (sorry I didn’t take any photos of my lunch). Then we’re off to Wat Pho, it took around 20 minutes to walk there, and these were the people we met along the way.

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WAT PHO (TEMPLE OF THE RECLINING BUDDHA)

The reclining Buddha is 46 meters long and 15 meters high, decorated with gold leaf and inlaid with mother-of-pearl. You have to take off your footwear before entering (shoes bag are provided).

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Tips: do not throw your admission ticket, it can be exchanged with a free bottle of water.

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Water taxi queue
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wat arun (temple of dawn)

This was the last step of our sightseeing on that day, it is very close to Wat Pho, but we had to take water taxi to get there (super cheap, the ferry only costs 3 baht one way). Unfortunately, the temple was temporarily closed for renovations.

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Footnote: All photos were taken with Fujifilm X-M1 and processed in Lightroom.
Bangkok Thailand